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The surname Yarger

A surname, carried by 1,938 people in the United States.

2 syllables Soundex Y626

Yarger: #15,201 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#10Martinez#100Jimenez#1,000Archer Yarger #15,201, 1,938 people Yarger: #15,201 of 162,253 surnames in the 2010 US Census #1Smith#160,975Doriott#100Jimenez Yarger #15,201, 1,938 people
Every surname held by 100 or more people in the 2010 US Census, most common on the left (162,253 in all). Yarger is more common than 90.6% of them.

Origin

A surname.

Origin from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0).

How common it is

2010 US Census

There were 1,938 people named Yarger in the United States in 2010, about 1 in every 159,311 Americans. That is about the same as in 2000, when the Census counted 1,936.

#15,201
rank among US surnames
1,938
people in 2010
0.7
per 100,000 Americans
+0.1%
change since 2000 (was #14,219)
RankSurnamePeople1 in
#15,194Herzberg1,939159,229
#15,201Munk1,938159,311
#15,210Schnur1,937159,394

Who is named Yarger

Race and Hispanic origin as people reported it in the 2010 Census

94% of people named Yarger identified as white (not Hispanic), 1.6% as two or more races and 1.4% as Black (not Hispanic).

  • White (not Hispanic) 94%
  • Two or more races 1.6%
  • Black (not Hispanic) 1.4%
  • Hispanic or Latino (any race) 1.4%
  • American Indian and Alaska Native 1.2%
  • Asian and Pacific Islander 0.3%

Compare: most common surnames among white Americans.

Spellings and sound-alikes

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Surnames that sound like Yarger

Yarger has the Soundex code Y626, the code US census indexes have used since the 1930s. Every surname with code Y626.

Questions

How common is the surname Yarger?
1,938 people in the United States had the surname Yarger in the 2010 Census, about 1 in every 159,311 Americans. It ranked 15,201st of 162,253 surnames.
What ethnicity is the surname Yarger?
In the 2010 Census, 94% of people named Yarger identified as white (not Hispanic), and 1.6% as two or more races.
Is the surname Yarger getting more or less common?
More common. 1,936 people carried it in the 2000 Census and 1,938 in 2010, up 0.1%.